John Lekic is the chef and owner of Farmers & Chefs in Poughkeepsie and vertically grows his own produce for his restaurant in a shipping container on site. He came across the concept of shipping ...

COLORADO – A company based in a Denver suburb turns up-cycled shipping containers into vertical hydroponic farms and claims the containers can create as much as two football fields worth of ...

Think about the lettuce on your plate. Chances are, it traveled about 1,500 miles to reach your fork.In the US, lettuce ...

Even near some of the busiest cities in the United States, nearly 54 million people have a tough time accessing fresh and healthy food, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. One ...

Vertical Roots, a vertical farming company which grows its leafy greens in repurposed shipping containers year-round, has opened its third indoor farm in Atlanta, Georgia, reducing produce ...

Vertical Roots is the largest hydroponic container farm in the country. They grow and package lettuce varieties and have recently implemented a packaging process that reduces plastic with a resealable ...

WYKOFF, Minn. — In his high-tech cargo container behind Wykoff's Minnwest Bank branch, Tony Rahe takes a tray of greens off a nursery shelf and places it on a counter. The tray and its clear lid, used ...

WYKOFF — In his high-tech cargo container behind Wykoff's Minnwest Bank branch, Tony Rahe takes a tray of greens off a nursery shelf and places it on a counter. The tray and its clear lid, used to ...

AUBURN, Ala. (WTVM) - Auburn University’s Agriculture Department converted a shipping container into a vertical farm to grow and produce food to serve to students. With these stations plants can grow ...

Food and where it comes from has always been a life thread for Hank Kim. Back in his homeland of South Korea, Kim’s grandfather was a farmer. Kim followed his brother to the United States for college.

Cropped In: Brandon Martin inside one of Local Roots Farms’ shipping containers that has been adapted for growing food. Local Roots Farms has been sowing more seeds in Vernon’s industrial landscape in ...